On Sep 28, 2018, at 4:50 AM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:
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Perhaps it should be presented in an ¡®opt-out form¡¯ such as ¡°Terms of Use agreements¡± are.
I'm leery of any extra steps that complicate the sign up process. There had been no "you must check this box to agree to our terms" in Groups.io's sign-up flow. That may have changed recently with the GDPR requirements, I'm not sure. And then we have the many email-only members who never visit the site to educate as well.
My ¡®opt-out¡¯ button suggestion is to opt-out of receiving the regular Special Notices reminders of ¡°How and Why not to get 'Removed for SPAM¡¯" - it would not be mandatory to choose not to receive these reminders, or even acknowledge receipt of them in any fashion.
I realize that it is out of Groups.io¡¯s ability, but it would be great if when a post is marked as SPAM (either deliberately by the user, or automatically by the Email Provider) that a confirmation window (or notice) would appear (or be sent) to the user, which would inform about any ¡®unsub¡¯ consequence of confirming that SPAM marking and require a confirmation or not.
Perhaps this could be a better Industry standard operating procedure to fight SPAM?¡ [I'm not holding my breathe on this]
GMF is not in a position to "provide to" (in an active sense) anyone except our members; but we do not "hide from" anyone - our messages and Wiki are public for all to read. We can aspire to provide information which Groups.io might take up in official communications and documentation; and have achieved that in the past.
By ¡®hidden¡¯ I only meant to recognize that the 'Removed for SPAM' information is not effectively reaching users proactively and rarely after the fact.
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Michael Pavan